SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 64 45 64
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.78% 8.51% 6.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.94% 26.47% 28.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 32 41
10th Percentile £325 £354 £338
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £573
90th Percentile £568 £674 £638
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.26 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £27.13 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -48.33% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £37.87 £56.25
90th Percentile - £53.85 -
South West median hourly rate £74.68 £27.13 £33.32
% change year-on-year +175.32% -18.59% -42.05%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 321 170 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 29.00% 32.14% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 89 127
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £406 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £439
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.45% -9.90%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £613 £669 £643
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 44 56
10th Percentile £60.88 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile - £62.00 £55.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.63
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.69%) Apache
1 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) NEC Housing
2 2 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) Power Platform
2 15 (23.44%) Azure
3 13 (20.31%) GCP
4 10 (15.63%) AWS
5 8 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (10.94%) Snowflake
7 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (6.25%) SaaS
9 3 (4.69%) GitHub
9 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) 5G
1 5 (7.81%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.25%) 4G
3 3 (4.69%) 2G
4 2 (3.13%) 3GPP
4 2 (3.13%) 5G NR
4 2 (3.13%) DNS
4 2 (3.13%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.13%) LTE
4 2 (3.13%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (3.13%) MPLS
4 2 (3.13%) VoLTE
4 2 (3.13%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.56%) DHCP
5 1 (1.56%) Firewall
5 1 (1.56%) Skype
5 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) Power BI
2 9 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.94%) BigQuery
4 6 (9.38%) Star Schema
5 5 (7.81%) Big Data
6 4 (6.25%) Delta Lake
6 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.69%) Tableau
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.13%) Metadata
9 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.56%) Looker
9 1 (1.56%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.56%) Power Query
9 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) Git
3 3 (4.69%) DBeaver
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.56%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 19 (29.69%) Finance
2 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.06%) Local Government
5 5 (7.81%) Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.13%) Publishing
8 1 (1.56%) Billing
8 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) Senior
2 14 (21.88%) Data Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Applications Support
5 7 (10.94%) Support Officer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior Applications Support
7 5 (7.81%) Analytics Manager
7 5 (7.81%) Application Security Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 5 (7.81%) Security Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Analytics Manager
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.81%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 3 (4.69%) REST
2 2 (3.13%) JAX-RS
2 2 (3.13%) Kafka
2 2 (3.13%) Pandas
2 2 (3.13%) Web Services
3 1 (1.56%) JPA
3 1 (1.56%) OAuth
3 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.56%) Playwright
3 1 (1.56%) PySpark
3 1 (1.56%) React
3 1 (1.56%) RESTful
3 1 (1.56%) SOAP
3 1 (1.56%) Spring
3 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.81%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Replication
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.13%) IoT
4 2 (3.13%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
1 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (37.50%) Analytics
2 21 (32.81%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (23.44%) Agile
4 14 (21.88%) ETL
4 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.19%) Data Modelling
6 10 (15.63%) AI
6 10 (15.63%) Application Security
6 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 10 (15.63%) Data Engineering
6 10 (15.63%) Data Science
6 10 (15.63%) DevOps
7 9 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (12.50%) Change Management
8 8 (12.50%) Data Security
8 8 (12.50%) Validation
9 7 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (10.94%) Data Protection
9 7 (10.94%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) Python
2 5 (7.81%) Java
3 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.13%) C
4 2 (3.13%) Go
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.56%) R
5 1 (1.56%) Scala
5 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CCNA
5 1 (1.56%) CCNP
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (28.13%) Data Quality
2 12 (18.75%) GDPR
3 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) PERC
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Terraform
2 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Grafana
3 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.56%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.50%) Databricks
2 8 (12.50%) Google
3 6 (9.38%) NEC
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle
5 2 (3.13%) BMC
5 2 (3.13%) Remedy
6 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.56%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) Facebook
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.56%) Splunk
6 1 (1.56%) Veeam
6 1 (1.56%) VMware